A/N: For all those concerned that this is going to be the exact same story that I'm sure you have all read a thousand times, bear with me until Chapter 5 or 6 (I'm not quite sure...) I have some interesting ideas up my sleeve. Three reviews before I put up chapter three!

Chapter 2:

Rory walked to her new locker and opened it up. She was so engrossed with organizing her books that she didn't notice the person who had snuck up on the other side of the locker door. When she slammed it shut, she was face to face with a smirking blonde-haired, brown-eyed boy, who was leaning against the lockers as if he lived there.

Rory smiled and squealed, throwing her arms around Logan Huntzberger. He laughed and hugged her back, wrapping his arms around her and holding her tight.

"Hey, Ace. That was a lovely greeting," He said, his smirk growing into a smile as Rory blushed and untangled herself from one of her best friends.

"How was London?" Rory asked. She hadn't seen Logan all summer due to the fact that his evil father had dragged him away to make him "learn the family business."

"Dull. Uneventful. Terrible. I missed everyone," Logan said.

"Well we all missed you too," Rory said. And it was true. She and Logan had always spent a lot of time together during the summer, and this was the first year that was made impossible.

"Hey, Girlie!" Rory heard a voice from behind her and spun around to see a bubbly blonde girl bounce forward and envelope her in a big hug.

"Steph! Hey, how was the Vineyard?" Rory asked, hugging Stephanie tightly. She hadn't seen a lot of Stephanie this summer either, her and her family had been vacationing in Martha's Vineyard.

"It was great. It would have been more fun if I could have brought my boy-toy with me," she laughed.

"Steph, I would really appreciate it if you wouldn't call me that," a voice said from behind Logan.

"Colin!" Logan said.

"Hey, man! How was London?" Colin said, sharing a brief "man hug" with his best friend.

"Boring," Logan said, turning to Stephanie. "I don't believe I've gotten a hello from you, yet, Vanderbuilt."

Steph smiled and stepped up to Logan, giving him a hug.

"Congrats," Logan smirked, whispering into her ear.

"On what?" Steph asked, confused.

"I was so excited when Colin called and told me the news. You two should have gotten together forever ago," Logan said.

Understanding lit Steph's face. "Oh, yeah… well, I guess it's been a long time coming, but I'm happy with the way things turned out," She smiled, her eyes sparkling as she turned to her boyfriend. They joined hands.

"You two are sickening," an Australian voice called out from the end of the hall. Finn was walking toward them, his arm around his beautiful red-headed girlfriend Rosemary.

Colin glared at his best friend. "Oh, yeah? Well you were even worse when you finally got together with Rose," he said.

Finn shrugged, accepting this. "Mate!" He said, turning to Logan. "Long time, no see!"

"Hey, Finn," Logan said, sharing a hug with him and watching as the boy turned toward Rory.

"Love! How was your summer? I feel like I didn't get to see you enough," He said, hugging her.

"Finn, you saw me last week, remember?" Rory said, laughing at him.

"Did I? Where was that?" he asked scrunching up his face, trying to remember.

"You were drunk," Rory said.

"Ah, well that makes sense," Finn said, smiling.

Rory rolled her eyes and turned to Rosemary.

"Hey, Rosie!"

"Hey Ror, how have you been?" Rosemary smiled at Rory. They were very close during the school year, but seemed to have lost contact during the summer.

"I've been ok, Jess let me borrow that book we were texting about a few weeks ago," Rory said, smiling. Of all her friends, Jess, Paris and Rosemary were the only ones that shared her strange love of all things read-able.

"Oh, can I read it next?" She asked, grinning.

"Actually I promised it to Paris next, but you'll be after her in line,"

"What did you promise me?" Paris asked, storming up to the rather large group that had gathered around Rory's locker.

"The book Jess lent to me," Rory said.

"Oh, the one about the '60's?" Paris asked.

"Yeah, that's it. So Paris how was your summer?" Rory asked.

"Fun. I met Doyle's parents. They seem to approve," Paris said in her usual formal manner.

"Well that's always a good sign," Steph said, smiling at Paris.

"Yes, but I miss him already," Paris sighed.

"He lives close, Paris, and next year you guys will go to the same College, so that'll be good," Colin said. Doyle was a freshman at Yale, the Ivy-League school that they were all planning to attend.

The group continued to talk and laugh with eachother, telling stories about their summer vacations. Rory looked around and noticed that two people were missing.

"Hey, has anyone seen Tristan and Juliet?" She asked, turning to her friends.

"Umm…" Finn said, looking around. "There!" He said, pointing to the end of the hallway, where the picture-perfect blonde couple were stopping to talk to a few of their friends.

"Tris! Jules!" Steph called down the hallway.

Tristan looked up when he heard is nick-name and smiled at his friends.

"C'mon, Julie," Tristan swung his arm over Juliet's shoulders and let her over to the large group standing around at the opposite end of the hallway.

"Hey, Tristan. Jules," Logan greeted, giving his friends a hug.

"How was London?" Juliet asked.

The bell rang, cutting off Logan's response. "I'll tell you all about it at lunch," he said, smiling at Juliet and pulling out his schedule. "Anyone else have World History first period?"

"I do," Stephanie said.

"Me too," Tristan said.

"Ok, let's go," Logan left with Steph and Tristan as they headed off for their first class.

"Calculus?" Rory asked, looking around at the group.

Paris, Finn, and Colin raised their hands and the four headed off.

"What do you have, Jules?" Rosemary asked.

"English. You?"

"Same, let's go."